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Contents
Introduction
Affinity Designer
Features
New features in v1.9/1.10
Personas
Switching Personas
User interface
Interface Visual Reference
Toolbar
Persona Toolbar
Context toolbar
Get started
App registration and content syncing
Create new documents
New from clipboard
Open documents and images
Document setup
About bit depth
Viewing
Zooming
Document templates
Pan/Scroll the Document view
Editing files in other Affinity apps
Artboards
About artboards
Adding and removing
Selecting, moving and resizing
Renaming and viewing
Aligning and distributing
Design aids
Color and opacity
Moving artboard content
Exporting
Printing
Drawing curves and shapes
About lines, curves and shapes
Draw curves and shapes
Edit vector curves and shapes
Drawing pencil lines
About geometric shapes
Draw and edit shapes
Selecting and aligning nodes
Transforming curves and shapes
Using multiple strokes and fills
Expand stroke
Contouring curves and shapes
Cornering shapes
Fill modes
Color
About color
Color models
About color spaces
Color management
Using OpenColorIO
Selecting colors
Sampling colors
Global colors
Spot colors
Overprinting
Color chords
Gradient editing
Transparency
Transparency editing
Layers
About layers
Create layers
Selecting and editing layers
Arrange/manage layers
Layer opacity
Layer blending
Layer blend ranges
Image layers
Layer clipping
Layer masking
Using adjustment layers
Tagging layers
Layer colors
Object control
Selecting objects
Grouping objects
Duplicating objects
Aligning objects
Joining objects
Creating compounds
Distributing and spacing objects
Ordering objects
Targeting objects
Isolating objects
Finding objects
Transforming objects
Rotating and shearing objects
Rasterizing
Convert objects to curves
Styles
Copying and pasting objects
Using assets
Symbols
Object defaults
Placing external content
Embedding vs linking
Placing content
Resource Manager
Using stock photos
Vector painting
Painting vector brush strokes
Modifying vector brush strokes
Creating custom vector brushes
Pressure sensitivity
Pixel painting
Painting pixel brush strokes
Modifying pixel brushes
Creating custom pixel brushes
Erasing
Retouch
Text
Working with text
Importing text
Artistic text
Frame text
Text on a path
Shape text
Character formatting
Paragraph formatting
OpenType font features
Special characters and glyphs
Spelling
Text styles
Using text styles
Creating and managing text styles
Removing text styles
Text style types
Selections
Creating pixel selections
Range pixel selections
Sampled color pixel selections
Modifying pixel selections
Refining pixel selection edges
Creating outline selections
Flooding pixel selections
Saving and sharing
Save
Setting bleed
Working with SVGs
Export
Print
Share
Packaging
About packaging
Creating packages
Opening packages
Exporting
Exporting using Export Persona
Export Options panel
Slices panel
Layers panel (Export Persona)
Design aids
Using undo, redo and history
Clip to Canvas
Rotate document view
Grids
Isometric and axonometric grids
Ruler and column guides
Margins
Rulers
Measuring guides
Dynamic guides
Snapping
Curve snapping
Construction snapping for curves
Force Pixel Alignment
Constraints
Using snapshots
Assistant Manager
Layer effects (FX)
Using layer effects
3D Effect
Bevel / Emboss
Color Overlay
Gaussian Blur
Gradient Overlay
Inner Glow
Inner Shadow
Outer Glow
Outer Shadow
Outline
Adjustments
Applying adjustments
Black and White adjustment
Brightness / Contrast adjustment
Channel Mixer adjustment
Color Balance adjustment
Curves adjustment
Exposure adjustment
Gradient Map adjustment
HSL adjustment
Invert adjustment
Lens Filter adjustment
Levels adjustment
LUT adjustment
OpenColorIO adjustment
Posterize adjustment
Recolor adjustment
Selective Color adjustment
Shadows / Highlights adjustment
Soft Proof adjustment
Split Toning adjustment
Threshold adjustment
Vibrance adjustment
White Balance adjustment
Workspace
About workspace modes
Changing the UI appearance
Accessibility
Customize
Keyboard shortcuts
Workspace
Tools panel
Toolbar
Tools
Design tools
Move Tool
Node Tool
Point Transform Tool
Contour Tool
Corner Tool
Pen Tool
Pencil Tool
Vector Brush Tool
Fill Tool
Transparency Tool
Artboard Tool
Place Image Tool
Vector Crop Tool
Color Picker Tool
Paint Brush Tool
Pixel Tool
Erase Brush Tool
Flood Fill Tool
View Tool
Zoom Tool
Shape tools
Rectangle Tool
Ellipse Tool
Rounded Rectangle Tool
Triangle Tool
Diamond Tool
Trapezoid Tool
Polygon Tool
Star Tool
Double Star Tool
Square Star Tool
Arrow Tool
Donut Tool
Pie Tool
Segment Tool
Crescent Tool
Cog Tool
Cloud Tool
Callout Rounded Rectangle Tool
Callout Ellipse Tool
Tear Tool
Heart Tool
Cat Tool
Text tools
Artistic Text Tool
Frame Text Tool
Selection tools
Flood Select Tool
Marquee Selection Tools
Selection Brush Tool
Retouch tools
Dodge Brush Tool
Burn Brush Tool
Smudge Brush Tool
Blur Brush Tool
Sharpen Brush Tool
Export tools
Slice Tool
Panels
32-bit Preview panel
Assets panel
Appearance panel
Brushes panel
Character panel
Color panel
Constraints panel
Effects panel
Export Options panel (Export Persona)
Glyph Browser panel
History panel
Isometric panel
Layers panel
Layers panel (Export Persona)
Navigator panel
Paragraph panel
Slices panel (Export Persona)
Snapshots panel
Stock panel
Stroke panel
Styles panel
Swatches panel
Symbols panel
Text Styles panel
Tools panel
Transform panel
Appendix
Import and export file formats
Contacting us
Copyrights
Glossary
Importing Affinity add-ons
About Affinity add-ons
Extracting add-ons
Importing assets
Importing brushes
Installing fonts
Importing styles
Importing swatches palettes
Importing templates
Extras
Hardware acceleration
Third-party support
Using pen tablets
Using a trackpad
Using Sidecar
Using Surface Pen
Using Surface Dial
Keyboard shortcuts
Preferences
Expressions for field input
Field input
Search
Favorites